Fernando de szyszlo biography of william

Fernando de Szyszlo Valdelomar 5 July — 9 October was a Peruvian painter , sculptor , printmaker and teacher. He was a key figure in advancing abstract art in Latin America since the mids, and one of the leading plastic artists in Peru. Szyszlo was born in Lima , Peru; his mother was a Peruvian citizen of Mestizo ethnicity, and his father was a geographer from Poland.

In , Szyszlo entered the architecture school of Peru's National University of Engineering , but abandoned plans to follow that profession and enrolled in the school of plastic arts of the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru. After his graduation in , he traveled to Europe where he studied the works of the masters, particularly Rembrandt , Titian and Tintoretto , and absorbed the varied influences of Cubism , Surrealism , Informalism , and abstraction.

Fernando De Szyszlo Valdelomar (born July 5, in Lima) is a Peruvian artist who is a key figure in advancing abstract art in Latin America since the.

Szyszlo lived in Paris and Florence from to , and then returned to Peru. Upon his return to Peru, Szyszlo became a major force for artistic renewal in his country breaking new ground by expressing a Peruvian subject matter in a non-representational style. In , he became a professor of art at Cornell University. In he became a visiting lecturer at Yale University.

Szyszlo was married to the Peruvian poet Blanca Varela — , with whom he had two children. At the time of his death, he resided and worked in Lima.

He reinforced both of those aware- nesses.

His work is represented in public and private collections throughout the world, including the Museum of Modern Art , New York; Solomon R. Contents move to sidebar hide. Article Talk. Read Edit View history.